Water-heater and radiator.



N. U. PERlS.

WATER HEATER A ND RADIATOR. APPLIYCATION FILED APR.8. 1918.

1,301,312. Patented Apr. 22,1919.

NICHOLAS U. PERIS, OF LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA.

WATER-HEATER AND RADIATOR.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, NICHOLAS U. PERIs, a citizen of the United States, residing at Lancaster, in the county of Lancaster and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in l/Vater Heaters and Radiators, of which the following is a specification. i

The, present invention relates to an article of manufacture serviceable for use as a water heater and radiator and consists in the combinations and arrangements of elements hereinafter described and particularly set forth in the accompanying claim.

The invention has for its purpose to provide a heater and radiator wherein the heating medium employed may be live or exhaust steam, hot water, or heated gases; and one especially designed for use as a water heater in connection with already installed steam or hot water heating systems. The heater is well adapted for use as a feed water heater, automobile radiator, or as a means to produce a circulation of liquid as in a mixer or oil tank. When used as an automobile radiator the cooling atmospheric air would pass through provided openings and thereby cool the heated water of the circulating water system; and when used as a feed water heater the water would have a continuous flow.

It is a further object of the invention to produce a heater of this type which shall be cheap, simple, durable, and constructed and designed to withstand the strains incident to expansion and contraction.

A further purpose of the invention is to provide an article of this class constructed as a single unit which'in the hands of the trade will be ready at all times for quick and convenient installation in any heating system without altering the arrangement thereof, and one which will in no manner require the services of an attendant for its operation.

With these and other objects in view, my invention consists in other features more fully described hereinafter and claimed, but it will be understood of course that I am not restricted to the precise construction disclosed inasmuch as slight changes may be made in the construction and arrangement of the several parts without departing from the spirit of the invention.

The manner of operation and construction Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Apr. 22, 1919. Application filed April 8, 1918.

Serial No. 227,310.

of the device are shown by way of illustration in the accompanying drawings, wherein:

Figure 1 is a front elevational view, partly in section, of the device, and

Fig. 2 is a central sectional view of Fig. 1.

Referring to the construction in further detail and wherein like. characters of reference designate corresponding parts in the different views shown the article, hereinafter to be referred to as a heater, comprises a casing 1, designed after the manner of a drum, and 2 and 3 designate the front and rear walls thereof. An annular and inner wall a divides the heater into a water chamber or reservoir 5, and a surrounding steam chamber or jacket 6. A water supply pipe 7 is connected to communicate with the reservoir 5, as indicated, and an outlet pipe 7 leads from the upper end of said chamber. Said inlet and outlet pipes 7 and 7 are pro vided respectively with controlling valves 11 and 12.

The steam or other heating medium is admitted into and carried off from the chamber 6 by means of suitable pipe connections 8 and 9 that are specially designed for ready and convenient attachment to the pipes of any already installed apparatus for steam or hot water heating.

The wall 4 may be formed with an opening X adapted to receive a portion of the steam for admixture with the water when steam is the heating medium employed.

The invention contemplates the employ ment of a plurality of open-ended air tubes 10 that pass through the heater, and which are conveniently secured to the front and rear walls thereof as illustrated in Fig. 2. Said tubes are diagonally disposed to better facilitate the passage of air currents as will be understood. And in this connection the device is particularly adapted for use as a radiator where the heating medium serves to heat the air passing through the several tubes 10. For instance, the heating medium may appropriately be the exhaust gases from the engine of an automobile and in which event the device would serve as a radiator for warming the interior of a car.

When the device is used to heat a stationary body of water, and also as a radiator the valves 11 and 12 serve for shutting off the inflow of water and drawing off water from the heater.

From the foregoing it will be readily seen that the heater Will operate as an instantaneous Water heater, and Will have considerable capacity .and be extremely economical in operation. And in brief will readily suggest itself as an appropriate device for general application in all houses and buildings generally, and particularly in apartment houses Where each tenant Would have his private hot Water heating service.

It Will be further seen from the preceding paragraphs that the heater is so arranged that the cold Water is contained in the inner chamber; While the steam circulates through the outer chamber. The object of this construction is to provide at all times a metal casing for the Water receptacle Which is at all times heated.

I claim:

A Water heater anl radiator comprising a Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the cylindrical casing having inlet and outlet openings to admit and exhaust the heating medium, an annular plate secured Within the casing and forming therewith a circumferenti'al heating chamber adapted to receive the heating medium, said annular plate and the side Walls of the casing providing a Water reservoir, inlet and outlet pipes for the reservoir, and a plurality of diagonally disposed and open-ended tubes passing through the reservoir and secured to the side Walls of the casing, said tubes adapted to have air currents pass therethrough, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I afliX my signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

NICHOLAS U. PERIS. Witnesses:

ROB-"r. E. BRASHEARS, JAooB SLosMAM.

Commissioner of latents,

Washington, D. G. 

